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W. S. WHEATFIELD. GARMENT FASTENER- No. 530,737. Patented Deb. 11, 1894.

' III"! UNITE STATES WILLIAM s. WHEATFIELD, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT- FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 530,737, dated December 1 1, 1894. Application filed September 8, 1894. Serial No. 522,474. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. WHEAT- FIELD, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment- Fasteners, of which the following is a specification. 1

My invention relates to garment fasteners, and has special reference to novel and useful means for permanently securing the hasp or staple to the fabric of which the garment is composed so that it will be secured firmly without any risk of displacement when connected to the hooking member of the clasping device or removed therefrom.

My invention is hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

.Referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters and numerals of reference point out similar partson each figure :Figure 1.is a front, rear and edge view of a hasp constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2. is a front and rear view of a portion of a waistband, having a hasp attached thereto according to myinvention. Fig. 3. represents the opposite portion of a waistband supplied with a hook adapted to engage with the hasp con nected to the end shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4. is an enlarged detail View of ends of the hasp shown in Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A, represents a hasp having a central strip forming bridge, a, the opposite ends of which are downwardly overturned forming obliquely inclined bended sides, a, from which extend in opposite directions, integral fastening ends, a the form and construction of which is the special feature of myinvention. Said ends are continuations of the bends, a, and are in practice, turned over horizontally. They are formed of a hemispherical blank as illustrated in dotted lines, Fig. 4, having an arched end 1,

7 which said ends extend downwardly and outwardly beyond the width of the bends, a, and on either side of said bends they are formed with continuously extending points, 3, the lower section of said ends, a being practicallyarrow-shaped as plainly illustrated in the drawings. The upper terminal section of the ends, a is provided with an orifice, 4, for a purpose presently pointed out.

I have illustrated my invention applied to opposite ends of a waistband, one of which is provided with a booking device, which in practice, is brought into engagement with the bridge, a, of the hasp, but do not desire to be understood as limiting its application thereto'as it can be used on openings of any class of garments, and the hasp constructed and attached as described, to fabric of any character, may be used with clasps or hooking devices of any form or conformation.

In practicing my invention small openings are made in the fabric, B, which in the present illustration, is a layer of buckram, and into said openings, made at suitable distances apart, the opposite ends, (1 are inserted and when the fabric so supplied is laid flat, the edge of the openings of such fabric will fall within the inverted inner edges of the extending points, 3, andwill thereby be held hooked over the edges of the openings made in fabric, such as, B, and there will be no risk of lateral displacement of the staple when subjected to strain or tension from any direction. In order to further secure the ends that are projected through openings made in the fabric, I preferably have them held flatly, as illus trated in Fig. 2, by passing. repeated strands of thread through the orifice, 4, and from thence over and over the strip of material of which the hasp is composed, extendingfrom said orifice to the edge of the inverted recess,

2, by which the arched end sections of the g hasp are held down flatly while, as before set forth, when the hasp is. subjected to strain the hooked ends terminating in points, 3, will provide complete resistance to such strain or tension.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

As an improved article of manufacture, a

5 garment fastener hasp, with an elevated, straight bridge strip having downward bends at each end thereof, lateral arrow head projections adjacent to the bends, said projections beingextended and formed with rounded ends with inwardly curved recesses between 10 the heads and ends, and central holes or apertures, thus forming thread bars for securing the hasp, substantially as described.

WILLIAM S. WHEATFIELD.

Witnesses:

CHAS. SCHONFARBER, MORRIS MARKS. 

